almost] Some referre (Almost) to all things, because we read that some things were cleansed by fire and water. Numbers 31:22. Others referre it unto purged, that is, from their Legall impurities, and make the sense this. All things are by the Law almost purged, though not altogether by blood; because sometimes other things were required: these are of opinion, that in all cleansings there was the use of blood. And so the words following (And without, &c.) they conceive are to be understood, otherwise there will seem to be a contradiction between (Almost) in the first clause and (without) in the second. Or may be the former part of this verse may be understood of things wherof some might be cleansed without blood, and the second part of persons which could not.